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COVID-19 peak immunity values seem to follow log-normal distribution
Author(s) -
Julio C. Urenda,
Olga Kosheleva,
Владик Крейнович,
Tonghui Wang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
applied mathematical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1314-7552
pISSN - 1312-885X
DOI - 10.12988/ams.2020.914231
Subject(s) - covid-19 , distribution (mathematics) , immunity , medicine , mathematics , virology , immunology , mathematical analysis , immune system , disease , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
For the current pandemic, an important open problem is immunity: do people who had this disease become immune against further infections? In the immunity study, it is important to know how frequent are different levels of immunity, i.e., what is the probability distribution of the immunity levels. Different people have different rates of immunity dynamics: for some, immunity gets to the level faster, for others the immunity effect is slower. Similarly, in some patients, immunity stays longer, it others, it decreases faster. In view of this, an important characteristic is peak immunity. A recent study provides some statistics on the peak immunity. There is not enough data to provide a statistically guaranteed selection of a probability distribution, but we can already make some preliminary conclusions. Specifically, based on the available data, we argue that the COVID-19 peak immunity values follow lognormal distribution. 1 Formulation of the Problem Immunity studies are important. In an epidemic, some people have a mild version of the disease, some have a strong (or even deadly version). Usually, recovered people gain an immunity, meaning that they cannot be infected again – at least for some time. For some diseases, vaccines are available that induce immunity.

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